Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sells men'stweed jackets for $15-35, and taffeta dresses for$30-75. At Oona's (1210 Mass. Ave.) you can findantique brocade vests for $15-$20, and men'sovercoats for $45-60. And for the hard-and-truerummager, Harbor Textile Waste (200 Broadway)sells used clothing for a dollar a pound...
...paneled corridors of Manhattan's brokerage firms and investment houses, the scandal was reverberating in an atmosphere that one eminent Wall Street lawyer described as "hysteria." At blue-chip law firms, telephones rang incessantly as worried players of the multibillion-dollar business- takeover game sought advice and protection. Said a nervous Manhattan brokerage executive: "Everyone is scared to read the newspaper in case his name might be in it." Similar jitters struck in Los Angeles, where guards carefully screened visitors to the offices of one of the country's hottest investment firms, now the focus of curiosity and controversy...
...Ethel Scull and James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the Guggenheim Museum, are probably being sold now in anticipation of the new tax law, which, beginning Jan. 1, will raise the Government's take on a seller's profit. The high prices ! owe much to the decline of the dollar, which makes even a seven-figure painting seem like a bargain to wealthy Japanese and Germans, and to the scarcity of quality works on the market...
...country have been met with arrests--and occasionally with negotiation and compromise--Harvard has ignored blockades, sit-ins and shantytowns and has responded after the fact with protracted disciplinary actions of questionable fairness and legitimacy. The decision to arrest divestment activists, who were blockading a dinner for million-dollar contributers at the Fogg Art Museum, was welcome as an unambiguous and justified response to protesters who were trespassing and obstructing entrance to the Fogg--albeit for good reasons...
...picture. The producers paid the military $1.8 million for the use of Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego, four aircraft carriers and about two dozen F-14 Tomcats, F-5 Tigers and A-4 Skyhawks, some flown by real-life top-gun pilots. Without such billion-dollar props, the producers would have spent an inordinate amount of time and money searching for substitutes, and might not have been able to make the movie...